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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's Stone report

About the writter:

Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in a small British locality, near Bristol, in the southwest of the island. After a brief stay in Yacht, her family changed to Winterbourne, environment in which there were forged the first recollections of the imaginative girl, who was happening hours sharing dreams and fantasies with her sister. In Winterbourne the girls did friends between the neighborhood; one of them was called Ian Potter. Made keen to adopting strange names for the protagonists and places of her novels, many years later Joanne took  this surname to give life to her famous character.

During her adolescence she wrote very much, but, with the exception of some entertaining stories, she never dared to show his manuscripts to anybody. In 1992 she knew the one who was his husband, with whom she had a daughter. But in spite of the harmonious event, the marriage did not prosper and they ended divorced. In 1996 Joanne decided to return to Britain, where she came with the firm intention of finishing and publishing a novel about Harry Potter, a child character with magic power, which wanderings she had imagined enough time behind during an endless trip by train between Manchester and London.

Characters and Roles:

Harry Potter:

He is the main character of the history. He lost his parents and had to live with his uncles who  made him think that his parents had died in a car accident for 11 years. He had a scar in the forehead coming from the night in which his parents died. His uncles disregard him for being a magician, which harry didn´t know until his 11 birthay. At the same time, he was invited to the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, he was a creative, humble and a good classmate

Lord Voldemort:

He is the killer of the parents of Harry and studied in Hogwarts. His principal mission in this history is to take over the sorcerer´s stone  to obtain the eternal life, for which he gets hold of the body of the teacher Quirell (the teacher of defense the dark arts). He was wicked and spiteful.

Ronald Weasley:

He is the penultimate son of a magicians' family, good playing chess and he is the best friend of Harry

Hermione Granger:

She is a daughter of muggles and the best friend of Harry. She is very intelligent, she liked to study, she is a good friend and very respectful.

Albus Dumbledore:

He is the director of the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, and he is the best magician of last times. He discovered the 12 applications of the blood of dragoon and he is the creator of the sorcerer´s stone.

An others characters:

Severus Snape profesor of potions, Rubeus Hagrid, Draco Malfoy the enemie of Harry, Professor Quirell the teacher of defense against the dark arts, Minerva McGonagall the profesor of transformations and the leader of Griffindor and Neville Longbottom.

Synopsis of the book:

 The history begins when Harry is left in the house of his Uncles Dursley, by Rubeus Hagrid, Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonnagall. There they mention that Lord Voldemort, the most dark magician of these times had been defeated, after trying to kill Harry Potter who survived making him a scar  in his forehead. As consequence of the acts of Voldemort, the parents of Harry, Lily and James died, and because of it Harry had to remain with his uncles. The book continues ten years later, where we see that Harry  is not happy  with his uncles and he does not  know that he is a magician. Little before his birthday Harry receives a Hogwarts's letter, but he does not manage to open it because his uncle, didn´t want him to notify that he can do magic. The efforts of Vernon, his uncle do not prosper, and letters continue coming, brought strangly by owls. Tired of this, the family Dursley and Harry change to a little house in an isle. The day of Harry's birthday, still in this little house, Hagrid arrives to deliver him the letter personally, and to wishing happy birthday him, Harry finds out about all the truth. The letter was saying that Harry was invited to participate in the first year of the Hogwarts school of whitchcraft and wizardry. Hagrid leads Harry to the Alley Diagon to buying his things for the school where they go to the bank of the magicians, Gringotts, and discovered that his parents had left him a great fortune. With this he buys a wand, books, and Hagrid gives him an owl. When harry get´s to the Hogwarts school of whitchcraft and wizardy, he discovered that this one is divided in four houses, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Soon, he would belong of one of them and at the end he took part in the house called Griffindor with his friend Ron weasly, a boy he had known in the train. After many events they discover that in the third floor, to which they had been prohibited to go, there was a dog that was taking care of the mysterious sorcere´s stone. This one was wished by the assassin of the parents of Potter, lord Voldemort who faces in a fight with Harry in which at the ends he lose. Finally, the danger disappears of Hogwarts and Griffindor, the house to which Harry Potter concerned, wins the glass of the houses.

Setting:

Harry Potter and the sorcerer´s Stone was published on 26 of June, 1997 in England, at first. The history develops in the country of England, but it takes as the principal place the Hogwarts school of whitchcraft and wizardy.

Unknown words:  

Shiver: It is when a movement is generate either in a person or in the land

·         Spark: It is when something generates a light that is similar to the gunpowder

·         Fleet: It is when something is maintain in the surface of a watery way

·         Flagged: It is when something is highlighted or marked

·      Glance: It is when something turns aside of the way in the one that is or when a person or animal looks at a thing rapidly

·         Halt: It is when something stop

·         Wildly: It is when something acts with violence face to something or is uncontrollable

·         Chivalry: It is when a person acts with kindness and respect

·         Hissing: It is when a person intimidates or offends other one

·         Starve: It is when a person does not have the enough resources to feed on

·         Trot:  It is a way of doing exercise into a quick rate

·         Rickety: It is when a person or animal is not in condition to realize activities

·         Bunch: It is a set of flowers

·         Creepy: It is when a person is scared about sometimes

I     In my opinion, this book is very interesting cause it shows how a boy who doesn´t know anything about magic manage to surpass himself and to reach his achievements and challenges, besisdes, it is entertaining and great